The New York Times Reportedly Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Unauthorized AI Training on Its Content
December 27, 2023
The New York Times alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of its articles without permission to train AI models, including ChatGPT. The lawsuit claims the companies scraped and reproduced copyrighted content without compensation, in turn undermining the Times’s business and competing with its journalism. Some AI outputs allegedly regurgitate Times articles verbatim. The lawsuit seeks damages and demands the destruction of AI models trained on its content.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, microsoft
- Alleged developer
- openai, microsoft
- Alleged harmed parties
- writers, the-new-york-times, publishers, media-organizations, journalists, journalism, journalistic-integrity, epistemic-integrity
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